Just Another Manic Thursday

Six o'clock already
I was just in the middle of a dream
I was kissing Valentino
by a crystal blue Italian stream...

Decided to write down everything today:
5:00 am Oatmeal, coffee, skim milk
6:00 am Out the door
6:30 am Booting up at work
10:45 am Gym - legs, shoulders, triceps, abs
11:45 am 3 messages - 1 from angry customer, 2 from coworkers he called before me
12:30 pm Customer succumbs to my charm and apologizes for being rude
12:32 pm Campbell's soup in microwave
12:36 pm One spoonful of soup
12:37 pm Coworker in office needing help composing letter to his angry customer
1:15 pm Soup and triscuits
2:00 pm Contracts meeting
3:30 pm Shut down, end program
4:00 pm Pick up The Kid at daycare "I want to watch movies at home" wonder if people are judging my parenting skills
4:15 pm Movies, juice, put on my PJs
4:30 pm Old Man picks up dinner, plain steak burritos and green chile and carnitas
5:00 pm Discover dog poop in corner - scrub, spray, scrub
5:15 pm The Kid hates dinner and screams and tumps the plate over on the floor and dog licks up steak and rice and chips
5:30 pm The Kid wants to go outside, take off my PJs put on jeans grab a beer we play in the Old Man's work truck.

5:34 pm Look up at wide open sky feel silence all around.

6:00 pm Dirty diaper screams have to go inside.
6:30 pm Sippy cup milk watch Spongebob Squarepants put on my PJs
6:34 pm Want banana get banana Banana fingers on my shirt
6:37 pm Discuss how Wall-E is falling asleep yes he is

6:44 pm Watch The Kid watching Wall-E wide-eyed never still runs over to touch my arm

6:50 pm Husband packing for turkey trip - where is camo hat? - will have to buy a new one can't find it in black hole of closet

6:51 pm Read Zora Neale Hurston to absorb the tone and the flow and the rhythm Spongebob in the background

7:10 pm Want sausage. Sausage all gone. Want grapes? No. Want grapes? Yes. Come get your grapes baby. Sticky pudgy grape fingers on car book.
7:20 pm Screaming tired kid dirty diaper change
7:30 pm Hear old song that reminds me of ex-boyfriend. Sippy cup milk. Old Man joins us on couch fingers entwined with small stubby hands.
7:40 pm Bath time water soaks my PJs.
8:15 pm 10 minute hugs I'll see you in the morning....

But wait, that's a lie. I'll be gone at 6 and The Kid wakes up at 6:30.